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A Girl and Her Cell Phone

I don’t even want to think about the day when there might be some strange boy on the other line, and she’ll no longer be saying, “Hiiiiiiiiii” or “Uh-oh” to her Gaba and Nana.

New "Dos" for the Girls

The big-girl bob The pixie cut The best compliment I’ve received in a long time: “I love the way she did my hair, Daddy. Now it looks just like Mommy’s!”

After a fun but long and very hot day at the zoo, Baby Rae looks a lot like how I felt. Interestingly enough, Madeline was still running circles around us at this point. The child’s on and off button is always on, and I tend to think she’s programmed to not sleep. If we couldRead the whole post >>

Let Sleepy Babies Lie

I take this to mean the baby’s not quite ready to give up her morning nap.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

And sometimes, perhaps, a thousand insults. Several people have emailed me about the photo that accompanied my recent article at InsideCatholic that discusses how I prayerfully came to the decision that I should not feel ashamed of nursing discreetly at Mass. While I don’t personally see it as obscene, I can see why the photographRead the whole post >>

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.